the weirdest thing

[Pete.]

A rag soaked in four Star will shift tar no bother.

 

[roofman]

I know its a bit off topic but the threads heading to "the old days" kinda thing...Anyway anyone here remember being subjected to the sunday night nitty comb with your head buried into your mams lap over an old newspaper..I remember every so often my mam shouting "heres an egg carrier" as she dug the metal comb into my skull in the early 60,s

 

[Spark plug]

I know its a bit off topic but the threads heading to "the old days" kinda thing...Anyway anyone here remember being subjected to the sunday night nitty comb with your head buried into your mams lap over an old newspaper..I remember every so often my mam shouting "heres an egg carrier" as she dug the metal comb into my skull in the early 60,s

Not really no

 

[arther dailey]

nitt comb ,no, but bread pudding..hot..druel just thinking about it, used to get two portions to take to school, would eat one and sell the other one for 6pence......

 

[Turbo]

I know its a bit off topic but the threads heading to "the old days" kinda thing...Anyway anyone here remember being subjected to the sunday night nitty comb with your head buried into your mams lap over an old newspaper..I remember every so often my mam shouting "heres an egg carrier" as she dug the metal comb into my skull in the early 60,s

I remember unfondly the annual nit check in school. A rather scary nurse searching your scalp with a nit comb, ignoring your squeals when she hit a tangle in your hair or scraped skin from your scalp! Back then a common cure for nits was paraffin oil! Of course the smell let everyone know they had nits & resulted in the child suffering bullying & abuse. Those were the days!

 

[Cobbler]

Being as this post seems to have gone back in time, it's all a bit weird, I was only thinking last night about this & recalled the cough cough lady. Who had that done to them, we never knew what they were looking for. There was a story going around at the time about one of the better blessed lads getting a stalk on & being sent out to cool down

 

[BarrieJ]

Being as this post seems to have gone back in time, it's all a bit weird, I was only thinking last night about this & recalled the cough cough lady. Who had that done to them, we never knew what they were looking for. There was a story going around at the time about one of the better blessed lads getting a stalk on & being sent out to cool down

My retired ex NHS nurse wife tells me it was to check for 'undescended testicles', although the cough might also alert the nurse to a hernia in the same region. The child was asked to turn their head, to avoid the possibility of coughing up something nasty over the nurse.

(From the wife):
The check is now routinely done between six to eight weeks old.
Through early childhood, the testes easily move up out of the scrotum especially if it is cold, or the child is upset. (This is called "cremasteric reflex"). They usually come down again when they are warm and in a male child you can often see them both in the scrotum after a warm bath. As long as they were properly down earlier in life, this going up and down (retractile testes) is normal.

 

[arther dailey]

for years after I remember the nurse said ,so you had weetabix this morning, just couldnt for the life of me work out how she could tell that ..............

 

[Cobbler]

for years after I remember the nurse said ,so you had weetabix this morning, just couldnt for the life of me work out how she could tell that ..............

In my case I must have eaten a rice crispie!

 

[bigegg]

for years after I remember the nurse said ,so you had weetabix this morning, just couldnt for the life of me work out how she could tell that ..............

You'd dripped it down the front of yr shirt???

oh. Just me then